A RESPECTER OF PERSONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1276, 16 February 1883, Page 2

A RESPECTER OF PERSONS.

The following amusing incident it tweordsd in a Melbourne paper, and is, we are aeeured, a fact ; — It wm at the top Of Bourke-etreet, one cold wintry night, that Sergeant Moriarty posted the active, tolerably Intelligent, and nsiwly-caught Con* stable Uornaliue O’Raffertr number • million, more or Ims, with strict in* 1 suctions to *-P. sn qfll en disorderly laraktere, public-houses, and so forth. " By the virtue of my efith and I will, Sarjint," was the reply of the gallant youth, who had never yet had a ease in Court, or attained the dignity of • silver watch. Accordingly, about 1 a.m., Cornelius, in the execution of his duty, found himself in front of the White Hart, one of the parlor* of which wm brilliantly lighted up, and on listening, voices were heard with the jingle of a glasses and other sounds betokening a breach of the law, which he had ny heart. He aoeordtngly knocked at the door in the full certainty of at last obtaining a case in the court, for which he haa longed so fervently. The door was opened, and the landlord sent for, when tho foltowing dialogue ensued: “ You are the landlord, Mr Edwards ?” “.Yes,” replied the genial and popular Harry; ‘ they eall me so.’ Well, thin, sur, I’m tony to see your house open after hours, and liquor sold oontrairy to the act. I must summon* you and take down the names of the men drinking as witnesses agin you’ ’ Ah! You wouldn’t be so hard,’ pleaded the smiling landlord, with a peculiar twinkle in his eye. ’ Begorra, - thin, I - must do my duty, without malice, favour, or ai- g fection, replied the zealous youth. | ‘Very well,’ was the answer, I’ll give you this sovereign if you’ll summon them all.’ The constable was accordingly ushered into the parlor, nOto-book 'in hand prepared to take down the names of the culprits, when his astonished gaze fell upon the portly forms of a Premier, a Chief Secretary, a Maiaw, and several members of the Parliament, cal tn v seated round the table, and, discussing the transit of Venus through the mediums ot tumblers. The sight was ton much, Gorney turned and fled, and next day petitioned to be transferred to the wilds of Gippsland, where there could be no chance of offending Cabinit Ministers itr the discharge of his 4 duty. N.B. —That sovereign has never been earned yet.